Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 79 63
Rank change year-on-year -45 -16 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,394 1,531 3,665
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 3.64% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.92% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,068 2,775
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -36 1,268 £77,500 +3.33% 433
London +5 679 £88,750 +4.41% 198
Work from Home -22 608 £70,000 -2.77% 442
UK excluding London -111 594 £67,500 -3.57% 302
North of England -28 274 £69,310 -3.72% 86
South East -107 128 £72,500 +7.41% 106
North West -32 127 £70,000 -3.45% 59
Yorkshire -51 100 £69,310 -4.06% 9
Midlands -75 57 £67,500 +3.85% 38
South West -87 56 £62,500 -8.79% 36
North East -12 47 £65,000 +30.00% 18
East of England -26 41 £60,100 +4.52% 14
West Midlands -50 35 £72,500 +3.57% 18
Scotland -75 32 £60,000 -20.00% 9
East Midlands -73 21 £66,000 +1.54% 19
Wales -32 9 £53,171 -20.64% 5
Northern Ireland -39 6 £62,500 +13.64% 11
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.29%) Apache
2 18 (1.29%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.00%) JBoss
6 13 (0.93%) IIS
7 12 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.65%) CMS
8 9 (0.65%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.22%) Liferay
11 3 (0.22%) nginx
11 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.072%) Actimize
6 1 (0.072%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.072%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.072%) Quorum
6 1 (0.072%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.072%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.072%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 761 (54.59%) AWS
2 574 (41.18%) Azure
3 302 (21.66%) GCP
4 240 (17.22%) Serverless
5 149 (10.69%) SaaS
6 119 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
7 115 (8.25%) GitHub
8 114 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.75%) Amazon S3
10 86 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 75 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
14 57 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 51 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
17 46 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
18 45 (3.23%) OpenShift
19 41 (2.94%) Datadog
20 39 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.66%) Broadband
2 13 (0.93%) HTTP
2 13 (0.93%) Network Security
3 9 (0.65%) DNS
4 7 (0.50%) AMQP
4 7 (0.50%) Firewall
4 7 (0.50%) Internet
5 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.36%) DHCP
6 5 (0.36%) MQTT
6 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.29%) LTE
7 4 (0.29%) SNMP
7 4 (0.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) VPN
9 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.14%) RFID
9 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (13.70%) NoSQL
2 176 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (9.47%) MongoDB
4 105 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.02%) MySQL
6 66 (4.73%) DynamoDB
7 63 (4.52%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
9 38 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 38 (2.73%) Redis
10 36 (2.58%) BigQuery
11 28 (2.01%) Big Data
12 22 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (1.58%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.08%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.00%) Power BI
15 12 (0.86%) DB2
16 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.65%) Tableau
18 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 188 (13.49%) Git
2 124 (8.90%) Jenkins
3 107 (7.68%) GitLab
4 51 (3.66%) JIRA
5 50 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 39 (2.80%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.51%) JUnit
8 31 (2.22%) CircleCI
9 30 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.94%) Selenium
11 20 (1.43%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.36%) Mockito
13 18 (1.29%) Maven
14 15 (1.08%) Claude Code
15 14 (1.00%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.93%) Vite
17 9 (0.65%) JMeter
18 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
18 8 (0.57%) Postman
18 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 408 (29.27%) Finance
2 339 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 154 (11.05%) Banking
4 111 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.81%) Law
6 89 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (4.95%) Retail
8 68 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.66%) Telecoms
10 47 (3.37%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.65%) Back Office
12 22 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.36%) Advertising
13 19 (1.36%) Billing
13 19 (1.36%) Legal
14 15 (1.08%) Marketing
15 13 (0.93%) Games
16 12 (0.86%) Front Office
16 12 (0.86%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 474 (34.00%) Developer
2 375 (26.90%) Senior
3 278 (19.94%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.99%) Architect
5 183 (13.13%) Lead
6 119 (8.54%) Senior Developer
7 114 (8.18%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (7.75%) Java Developer
9 94 (6.74%) Java Engineer
9 94 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
10 89 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
11 72 (5.16%) .NET Developer
12 59 (4.23%) Software Developer
13 56 (4.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 51 (3.66%) Lead Developer
15 48 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
16 43 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
17 42 (3.01%) C# Developer
17 42 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (22.60%) React
2 288 (20.66%) .NET
3 284 (20.37%) RESTful
4 222 (15.93%) Node.js
5 221 (15.85%) Spring
6 214 (15.35%) REST
7 197 (14.13%) Spring Boot
8 175 (12.55%) Kafka
9 109 (7.82%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.60%) gRPC
11 83 (5.95%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.67%) HTML
13 70 (5.02%) CSS
14 66 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.59%) Vue
16 62 (4.45%) .NET Framework
17 59 (4.23%) ASP.NET
18 56 (4.02%) OAuth
19 55 (3.95%) Middleware
20 54 (3.87%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 406 (29.12%) Cloud Native
2 249 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
3 103 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 88 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 60 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
8 40 (2.87%) Data Structures
9 39 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 25 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.72%) Blockchain
13 23 (1.65%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.43%) AI Agents
14 20 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.15%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.88%) Linux
2 37 (2.65%) Windows
3 17 (1.22%) Unix
4 16 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (48.92%) CI/CD
2 559 (40.10%) Agile
3 540 (38.74%) DevOps
4 526 (37.73%) Software Engineering
5 390 (27.98%) Containerisation
6 316 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 300 (21.52%) Mentoring
8 299 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
9 282 (20.23%) Event-Driven
10 280 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 273 (19.58%) Test Automation
12 254 (18.22%) AI
13 228 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
14 188 (13.49%) Computer Science
15 169 (12.12%) Scrum
16 164 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 158 (11.33%) Clean Code
18 156 (11.19%) Coaching
19 155 (11.12%) Technical Leadership
20 153 (10.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 452 (32.42%) Java
2 391 (28.05%) Python
3 293 (21.02%) SQL
4 265 (19.01%) JavaScript
5 247 (17.72%) C#
6 217 (15.57%) TypeScript
7 137 (9.83%) Go
8 52 (3.73%) Scala
9 44 (3.16%) PHP
10 43 (3.08%) C++
11 35 (2.51%) Bash
11 35 (2.51%) C
12 30 (2.15%) Ruby
13 22 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.51%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.22%) PowerShell
15 17 (1.22%) Shell Script
16 14 (1.00%) Rust
17 10 (0.72%) Groovy
18 9 (0.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 195 (13.99%) Degree
2 132 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 113 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 88 (6.31%) SC Cleared
5 59 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 28 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.43%) CISSP
12 16 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.86%) CISM
13 12 (0.86%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.57%) PhD
15 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.53%) QA
2 31 (2.22%) GDPR
3 28 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 18 (1.29%) NIST
6 16 (1.15%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.72%) NCSC
9 9 (0.65%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) WCAG
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.072%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 428 (30.70%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 438 (31.42%) Kubernetes
2 261 (18.72%) Terraform
3 82 (5.88%) Grafana
4 78 (5.60%) Ansible
5 40 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.87%) Argo
7 19 (1.36%) Kibana
8 15 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Istio
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
12 4 (0.29%) Rancher
13 3 (0.22%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 121 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.73%) Google
3 51 (3.66%) Oracle
4 45 (3.23%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.08%) IBM
7 15 (1.08%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.08%) SAP
8 14 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 11 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.72%) Cisco
11 10 (0.72%) Databricks
12 9 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.65%) Splunk
13 8 (0.57%) Adobe
14 7 (0.50%) Guidewire
14 7 (0.50%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.50%) Software AG